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I have searched the forums with little or no luck for help in this regard:

I have MEPIS set up and running, with MTU: 1352 for PPPoE. Mozilla works fine, IRC works fine, and downloads work fine. But apt-get keeps giving me a fragmented error.

has anyone any ideas on how to handle this? I've tried setting MSS to 1412 to compensate, with no difference. What am I missing?? :confused:

Oh, BTW, Linux n00b of note here. :eek: :D

Thanks in advance.
 
Have you tried setting it so that it has MTU path discovery on?

BTW, total PC/Linux/Mac n00b of note here :eek: :D
 
Maybe I dont understand your question but....first make sure all your souces are up to date in /etc/apt/sources.list
and the following commands always do the trick for me:

#apt-get update
#apt-get -f install (fixes broken packages)
#apt-get update --fix-missing (same as above)

then install all the packages you want e.g.
# apt-get install packagename
 
stepper said:
Maybe I dont understand your question but....first make sure all your souces are up to date in /etc/apt/sources.list
and the following commands always do the trick for me:

#apt-get update
#apt-get -f install (fixes broken packages)
#apt-get update --fix-missing (same as above)

then install all the packages you want e.g.
# apt-get install packagename
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That's half my problem. I type apt-get update, and it goes through a whole load of sites, then gets to non-us/non-free and reports a fragmentation error - and stops. I can't get further.
 
did u do this:
#apt-get update --fix-missing ?

if so, try to remeber all the 'sites' that gives u the error messages and then edit the sources.list file....
#kedit /etc/apt/sources.list or open it with your favorite text editor if not kedit
then comment out the 'sites' with # in front of deb http://...... or ftp://...

maybe first package you should install is synaptic (GUI frontend to apt)
apt-get install synaptic , and you'll wouldnt bother with the command console anymore
 
No, I did a simple apt-get update.

Actually, I got thie error in KPackage first, then tried it manually. Same error.

I'll post the exact error when I get home and can replicate it.
 
Here it is

This is what KPackage returns...
Code: 
apt-get update;echo RESULT=$?
Hit http://download.videolan.org sid/main Packages
Ign http://download.videolan.org sid/main Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages
Get:1 ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages [17.3kB]
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release
Hit ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Release
Hit http://2004.mepis.org testing/main Packages
Hit http://2004.mepis.org testing/main Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Release
Fetched 17.3kB in 19s (896B/s)
Reading Package Lists... 0%Segmentation fault
RESULT=139
Gonna work on MTU auto-discovery - see if it helps.
 
To me that looks like a fully updated system!
0.8 kB/s....are u downloading things in the background?
 
that looks like a fully updated system? I dont see how you can see that from a kpackage output that downloads lists and crashes while processing them. See that 'Segmentation fault' bit? thats a program crashing. Could be a buffer overflow. what you need to do is find a patch for that and try again. Also I never saw anything about a fragmentation error there, i'm not sure if maybe people are confusing a segmentation fault with a fragmentation error which are two totally different monkeys.
 
slimothy said:
that looks like a fully updated system? I dont see how you can see that from a kpackage output that downloads lists and crashes while processing them. See that 'Segmentation fault' bit? thats a program crashing. Could be a buffer overflow. what you need to do is find a patch for that and try again. Also I never saw anything about a fragmentation error there, i'm not sure if maybe people are confusing a segmentation fault with a fragmentation error which are two totally different monkeys.
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I was alluding to the fact that it returned the update list without errors so which means the packages are fully updated the only problem is the KPackage, that is why I suggested he install synaptic and use it instead of that Kpackage.
 
slimothy said:
that looks like a fully updated system? I dont see how you can see that from a kpackage output that downloads lists and crashes while processing them. See that 'Segmentation fault' bit? thats a program crashing. Could be a buffer overflow. what you need to do is find a patch for that and try again. Also I never saw anything about a fragmentation error there, i'm not sure if maybe people are confusing a segmentation fault with a fragmentation error which are two totally different monkeys.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I got confused trying to remember it from work. :rolleyes:

Thanks, folks. I'll try looking for a patch tonight.

Stepper - no, I wasn't downloading anything in the background. Lovely, hey? That's what 3-4 lights can do to you sometimes... :eek:
 
OK, it seems that my problem is actually not iBurst related, so I'm going to leave this thread. Thanks for your help, guys. At least I know it's not my iBurst settings.

Time to step out into the wide world of Linux... :cool:
 
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stepper said:
I was alluding to the fact that it returned the update list without errors so which means the packages are fully updated the only problem is the KPackage, that is why I suggested he install synaptic and use it instead of that Kpackage.
Click to expand...

ok well you suggested that before you ever saw the output and returning a package list without errors does not mean a system is up to date. it gets the list, then proccesses it then decides wether it is or isn't out of date, so it was crashign before that ever happened.
 
Wait, doesn't Synaptic use apt-get? I was getting the segmentation problem from the console, calling apt-get directly. That tells me that the problem isn't KPackage...
 
well it could be any function within any app or library linked to that proccess, if you are willing to get your hands dirty run the same command in gdb (GNU debugger) and then paste any output here, also try pste the value of the instrction pointer and stack pointer at crash time (ESP and EIP) of course if you have no idea what i'm talking about then just paste the exact command you use on the command line before it crashes and i'll type up a quick copy/paste guide
 
Ok, I'll try both suggestions given here. If the first doesn't work (apt-get update --fix-missing), then I'll do the debug thing. I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty - I just need to know how, that's all. ;)
 
Araat. fix-missing also produces Segmentation faultsts...0%

gdb not installed.

I'm going to look for another distro - one that has what I need, and works. Any suggestions?
 
for a desktop system, especially in sa i'd say suse, for cool points maybe gentoo, for ease mandrake and for laziness i'd say knoppix
 
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